SENATE.  Fel-ruarj   25,  1865.— Read  and  ordered  to  lie  on  the 
table  and  !>e  printed. 

Bj  the  President  pro  tempore. 


RESOLUTIOTSr 

Passed  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Virginia,  in  rela- 
tion to  the  Confederate  States  impressment  laws. 

Whereas,  The  manner  and  extent  of  impressments,  as  adopted  b\' 
the  agents  of  ollicers  commanding  the  Confederate  forces,  is  par- 
tial in  its  operation  and  unjust  in  its  effects,  upon  the  farmiufj- in- 
terest in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  our  armies,  and  tends  to  create 
discontent  and  dissatisfaction. 

Therefore  Resolved,  as  the  sense  of  this  General  Assembly,  That. 
the  existing  laws  in  relation  to  impres3ments  should  be  so  amended 
as  will  hereafter  prevent  coosequences  so  unjust  and  injurious  to 
the  said  farmini?  interests  ;  and  that  the  attention  of  our  Senators 
and  Representatives  in  Congress  bo  respectfully  iuvitel  to  this  sul>- 
ject. 

Agreed  to  February  24. 1865. 

\y.  F.  GORDON,  .JR.,  0.  U.  ]>. 


